I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.
John ChristopherTags: friendship
Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow behind the western hills that marked the Burning Lands. A dog barked far off, once and no more.
John ChristopherTags: imagery
Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.
John ChristopherTags: faith
There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.
John ChristopherTags: satisfaction
Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.
John ChristopherTags: relationshis
Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe.
John ChristopherTags: power
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
John ChristopherTags: relationships
There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
John ChristopherTags: life-decisions
I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.
John ChristopherTags: reflection cowardice
He said, speaking more to himself than to me: 'It was knowledge I sought. Knowledge which is clean and pure, far above the cheating and deceiving in which most men spend their lives.'
And do you not find it,' I asked, 'this knowledge which you prize?'
In part,' he said. 'I find other things, too. Things I do not desire but must accept. There is still cheating and deceiving.
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